For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile. Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpileābringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons.Ā Successive administrations have determined that theseā¦
But what if we need them?
In principle, these type of weapons are immoral even in war. Weāre talking about things like mustard gas, chlorine gas, sarin gas. Nerve agents that are incredibly cruel and painful. They painfully, sometimes slowly, kill or incapacitate indiscriminately.
I think in practice warfare and weaponry have changed enough that the U.S. military feels it can wage war more effectively without these type of weapons.
You donāt and wonāt. There is never any justification for these weapons
If a war somehow gets so bad that the US feels the need to use chemical weapons, they can just make them.